Retail Focus

JANUARY 13, 2022

Frasers Group plc today unveils plans to advance its investment into the Irish market, introducing FLANNELS into the Republic of Ireland for the very first time, with three new FLANNELS stores set to open across the country in FY23. For FLANNELS by Argent Design.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Cinema, tick.

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VMS

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? Finally, we were able to implement the installation plan. Retail was no different.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Despite the efforts that go into planning, maintaining and marketing local shopping areas, the people who use these places are often not consulted about what they actually want and need on their main street. What are the key shops and services? We wanted to find out what consumers see as their ideal local shopping street.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The pandemic continues to influence customer purchasing priorities and penetration in the omnichannel environment, which is affecting assortment mix and demand at each location. This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites. The brand still has potential to grow further in Australia.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One of the key trends that defined retail in 2023 was pop-up shops and how these experiential shopping experiences have taken hold over millennial and Gen Z consumers. Just this week, American department store chain Nordstrom announced a unique collaboration with the British fashion brand Paul Smith.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Myer’s online sales have more than doubled since John King took over running the department store in 2018, and the CEO believes they can double again to reach $1 billion in the not-too-distant future. CBD stores take a hit. CBD locations were particularly hard hit, with comparable store sales down 22.3 billion.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the retailer’s establishment in 1858, Macy’s has become one of the most well-known department stores in the US, if not the world. Like many retailers, both in the US and internationally, Macy’s has been impacted by the decline in consumer interest in shopping in traditional department stores amidst the rise of online shopping.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Based in Florence, Dr Vranjes Firenze is a global brand with 21 flagship stores across Italy, a retail store in the Dubai Mall, four stores in Japan and authorised retailers globally, including David Jones, which is currently its only retail partner within Australia. Who is Dr Vranjes Firenze?

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

Australian property group Mirvac is displaying Indigenous art in its shopping centres and office buildings across Australia this NAIDOC Week (July 4 to July 11) as part of a partnership with Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. The store has a weighted average lease expiry of 10.5 The department store saw sales fall 13.1

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

The company, which operates 246 bricks-and-mortar stores and a fast-growing online platform across the Best & Less and Postie chains in Australia and New Zealand, primarily targets women shopping for their families with its strong baby and kids apparel offering. On being everyday low cost.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Spearheading this move are two flagship stores nestled in prime locations: one at the prestigious Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taipei’s vibrant Xinyi Xintiandi district, and the other at the iconic Dubai Mall.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

The UK-based online platform for independent and ethical brands Wolf & Badger opened its first bricks-and-mortar location in London in 2010, before adding stores in New York in 2017 and Los Angeles in 2022. GG: We increasingly see consumers looking to be more conscious in how they shop. Today, the US is its largest market.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2024

It offered a smorgasbord of independently owned shops, national and international chain stores and department stores. These were located in laneways, shopping arcades, main streets and multistorey shopping centres. A visit to the CBD on a Saturday was more than just a utilitarian shopping trip.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 7, 2023

Our first lookbook of 2023 collects 10 pop-up shop interiors from around the world, from a swimming-pool-style store by fashion brand Jacquemus to a playful supermarket stocked with groceries made of felt. Showcasing a variety of material and colour palettes, here are 10 pop-up shops featured on Dezeen. Photo by Gray Hamner.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

But he believes that the company’s impressive sales growth is set to continue as it emphasises the initiatives that underline its ‘Customer First Plan.’ They include the refurbishment of its store network, the rollout of its national distribution centre , and the relaunch of Country Road Group in July this year. per cent to almost $1.85

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The new Nike Unite store will cover 10,300 sq ft and will occupy a prime position on Level One of the centre, close to UK luxury fashion retailer Flannels, which is set to open a new 43,000 sq ft department store in December – its first store in Ireland. The work involved a full mall upgrade.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

How will consumers be spending their dollars in the week leading up to Christmas, what are retailers doing to entice consumers in-store and which retailers will benefit from this? These are pressing questions that many in the industry will be asking themselves in the final few big shopping days of the year. Here is what’s happening.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2023

A retail rental index for shopping malls in the APAC region prepared by JLL shows that by the third quarter of last year rents had retreated to roughly the level they were about 10 years ago. On the positive side, Covid restrictions eased and more people shopped in stores for a change, which was a huge fillip to food and beverage retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The chain only has four locations in Japan. He opened his first stores in Hong Kong in 2013, then a flagship in Kyoto in September 2014. Back then I had been frustrated that most coffee shops in Japan were copycats of Melbourne or Portland cafes,” he recalls. He told Inside Retail he prefers ‘iconic’ locations.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The country’s growing economy and expanding middle class have created a favourable environment for global brands to set up shop and tap into a new consumer base. Galeries Lafayette is renowned globally for its flagship location at Boulevard Haussmann in Paris.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even prime locations, local partners, name recognition and often a portfolio of new merchandise brands haven’t kept Australia from becoming a dead end for some major international retailers. In some cases, the failed Australian ventures were part of a flawed strategy to breathe growth into struggling home market operations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

The first Pan Am store was opened at Shinsegae Starfield Coex Mall, shortly before the brand launched a flagship store in Seoul’s trendy Seongsu-dong neighbourhood , locally known as ‘The Brooklyn of Seoul’ for its hip cafes and restaurants. This story first appeared in the November issue of Inside Retail Asia Magazine.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2022

Australian discount department store Harris Scarfe is moving “full-steam ahead” with its strategic growth plans, despite rising inflation and growing concerns about an economic recession. “We’re Location, location, location. Investing in digital.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 6, 2023

Further, a recent annual trend report by online travel agency Luxury Escapes, which surveyed 4,000 people, stated that over 90 per cent of Australians planned to travel domestically or internationally in the year ahead. All the people I’ve spoken to have made plans to travel in 2023 or the year after,” July’s co-founder Richard Li said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

Vincom tries to cover itself with four tailored formats: Vincom Center, which is designed for high-density locations; Vincom Mega Mall, a retail/entertainment concept averaging about 110,000sqm of gross floor area (GFA); and Vincom+ and Vincom Plaza, two formats that are oriented toward smaller provincial cities. per cent.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Australian department store chain Myer reported its strongest second-half profit in nearly 10 years on Thursday, bringing its total profit for the year to $60.2 At the same time, King made sure to mention the growth that Myer is seeing in its bricks-and-mortar stores, with comparable sales up 8.9

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

Never more so than now, when the industry emerges from two years of Covid restrictions that almost crippled it, and hungry competitors are proceeding with plans to bang up malls everywhere in the region. The mall will have almost 100,000 square metres of gross leasable area and 250 shops. Malls: the Homogeneity Problem.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2022

David Jones CEO Scott Fyfe said the retailer drew on lessons learned from the revamp of its Elizabeth Street flagship store in Sydney in 2019 to ensure the Melbourne project was a success. Department stores are big boxes, and you’ve got to have an experience on every floor,” he told Inside Retail. “We’ve

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Positioned as a ‘next generation luxury shopping and upscale food and beverage concept’, fashion brands represented on the premium avenue include Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Chloe, Jimmy Choo, Emporio Armani and Pucci, building on QDF’s existing collection of high-end brands. The categories and brands ranged will vary by location.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

The retailer’s pop-up space, The Corner Shop, will see a wedding takeover in August, with a curated range of vintage and pre-loved womenswear, menswear and accessories that can be purchased or rented for the big day as part of the company’s Resellfridges and Selfridges’ Project Earth initiatives. billion in annual economic output.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

per cent increase in department stores and a 3.3 With increased wage costs, lack of manpower, and continued investment in digital platforms and data infrastructure with the growth in online shopping, retailers must act. Overall consumer confidence also remains in deeply negative territory. Retail sales increased by 1.3

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Retail Design Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Note: Richard’s family is planning a memorial in his honor with a date and time to be announced. Lewis joined the Institute in 1978 (then the Institute of Store Planners) through the Los Angeles Chapter. Richard James Lewis, 72, passed away suddenly August 24, 2022 with his wife Tanya, and daughter Lauren, by his side.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 7, 2021

Luxury handbag restoration and preowned designer resale retailer, Handbag Clinic is expanding its partnership with luxury department store, Fenwick, with the launch of its second in-store concession in Fenwick Colchester from Monday 12 th April. preserving the promise of luxury for generations to come.”.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

When the high-end retailer charged TPG Architecture (New York) with a collaborative effort with their in-house design team to redesign its existing store in the Perisur Mall, located in the southern suburbs of Mexico City, the mandate presented was clear and consistent. It’s the neighborhood strategy or city planning strategy.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Conceptually, it embraces Sydney’s energetic atmosphere and pays homage to some famous landscapes, including the Outback and Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which helps create an immersive shopping experience. Further, the store offers a blend of aesthetics and functionality. Loewe Melbourne Image supplied. Photography credit: Liz Sunshine.

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